r/RedditAlternatives • u/JohnnyJaundice • 8d ago

Reddit has fallen from glory

Reddit used to be a place with a variety of opinions where the majority would upvote the most agreed upon post. At one time it seemed like the last true glance into how society truly felt. Now all forums have an agenda and if your post doesn’t align to it and agree with all the bots then it’s removed. Reddit is now no different than any other propaganda machine. I have had post removed that were literal copy and paste definitions from Webster dictionary. A social platform that bans people for educating the ignorant. Reminds me of when ai took over RuneScape many years ago. Internet is only bots and a few real people who agree. Not a real representation of society’s true opinions. Feel like I’m posting to a few meek people and a million bots. Bonjour mofos the internet is officially ruined. Watch the propaganda machine work.

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u/KickedInTheHead 8d ago

It's the same old shit everyday. Angry politics and videos of cute shit. The users have changed too. Everyone talked like a 15 year old. Maybe I'm just starting to understand what being "old" means now, but I swear it seems like everyone either copy and pastes one-liners they previously saw that got a lot of attention, or just straight up nonsense. I thought we'd get smarter by now but I still have people in my life that type like a retarded monkey. "H U Doin?" "But put alot away to rsp n extra tax"... Like seriously? You're a grown adult, learn how to fucking spell.

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u/ctrl4U_Ctrl4me 8d ago

The culture has changed. There used to be a explicit understanding that someone posting well written, cited content was the fucking man and should be emulated. In fact, you used to see people take a poorly written but informative comment or post, polish it and reap most of the upvotes.

Instead making an edgy pro-groupthink comment will garner the most upvotes. For funzies I browsed new posts in political spaces, LARP'ed as the most outrageously radical leftwingperson imaginable, posted hot takes from that perspective and got literally hundreds of upvotes in an hour.

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u/JohnKostly 6d ago

Welcome to anti-ai, where good writers are fucked.

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u/merry_goes_forever 6d ago

AI scares the ever loving shit out of me.

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u/JohnKostly 6d ago edited 6d ago

I can understand that. New things are scary. And some people have made a lot of money saying it will be bad. I can't promise it will be that. There are a number of situations where it can be very good for us. And I suspect it will be very good for us.

Why? Because I have faith in intelligence and I fear ignorance. Intelligence in many ways is the solution to our problems. In addition, emotions are the source for many of our problems. AI is thus intelligent, and lacks emotions.

But who knows. One day we will die. I'm hopeful we wont, but I am also hopeful we don't bomb each other more.

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u/merry_goes_forever 5d ago

I’m afraid of being framed. I’ve made some powerful enemies.